Geoff Parker: TIMELINE - Of The Foreshore And Seabed saga (Summarised)

Pre 1997 - Under British Common law, the foreshore and seabed were owned by the Crown on behalf of all New Zealanders. This was affirmed in the 1963 Ninety Mile Beach case, when the Court of Appeal found that no common law ‘customary title’ existed in the foreshore and seabed.

Pee Kay: Remember Kelvin Davis?

Kelvin Davis, the former teacher was first elected as a Labour list MP in 2008 after being recruited by Labour MP, Shane Jones. But Kelvin was not re-elected in 2011. Kelvin hung in there and was, again, returned to Parliament as a Labour list MP in May 2014 and went on to win the electorate of Te Tai Tokerau that September. He retained the seat in the 2017 and 2020 elections, but was defeated in the 2023 election. After briefly returning to Parliament as a list MP that year, Kelvin announced he would retire from politics on Waitangi Day, 6 February 2024.